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[freaky_janis]

Ophidia in Herba

[tassie]

well...

[schapin]

Can anyone read the name it says in the entry

[mei]

[timmygus]

borges babel builder

[tassie]

ref. nr.

[alcofribas]

[freaky_janis]

I noticed only one complete flash book in the wiki guide – the one of the Gray Lodge. Therefore I've entered all other flash books. Tried to be as complete as possible, but since English is not my first language I think I've made a few mistakes. Also some words I did not recognize at all… Marked them by ***. Feel free to improve my entries! Thought it might be usefull to enter the books, cause if there are going to be updates we can compare a new flashbook with the old one.
http://deaddrop.us/wiki/index.php/S%26S:_Locations

Furthermore good work all, on the Aleph etc! Took me all morning to read the new messages – did not read the forum this weekend since I had too much Stella saturday evening. I truly threw up all sunday…

Janis x

[ryandrew]

well halloween is relevant as it is the date that jon made the trade with S+S. check the cache and such.

[TicTac]

Now that we have the new handwriting sample from the back of the photograph, I am pretty sure that we can confirm that this entry in Hilbert's Hotel guest book is Jon's. Whether or not there are any clues there......

Initially, I found my stay
at Hilbert's extremely
rewarding. By the end of
my time here, I'd found it
even more so. I would like
to say a big thanks to all the
staff for their discretion.
Definitely will recommend
Hilbert's to my friends.
Everything about my stay
here is firmly noted in my
journal. Many thanks again.

[Eddie Nichols]

Hilbert's: the directed approach

[Slithy]

[OmegaX]

One thing I didn't see anyone mention: in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel]Wikipedia's Hilbert Hotel entry[/url] , there is an Aleph. Interesting, no?

Here is the passage in its entirety:

"This state of affairs is not really paradoxical but just profoundly counterintuitive. It is difficult to come to grips with infinite 'collections of things', as their properties are quite different from the properties of ordinary 'collections of things'. In an ordinary hotel, the number of odd-numbered rooms is obviously smaller than the total number of rooms. However, in Hilbert's aptly named Grand Hotel the 'number' of odd-numbered rooms is as 'large' as the total 'number' of rooms. In mathematical terms, this would be expressed as follows: the cardinality of the subset containing the odd-numbered rooms is the same as the cardinality of the set of all rooms. In fact, infinite sets are characterized as sets that have proper subsets of the same cardinality. For countable sets this cardinality is called "

At least, it would appear to be an aleph or some variant thereof....

[tassie]

aleph

[OmegaX]

Read it, just noting the odd coincidence. I mean, "Hilbert Hotel", then the aleph actually related to the paradox of that same name (roughly)? Kind of odd, no?